Interviews of the Margaret MacVicar Memorial AMITA Oral History Project

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Interviews of the Margaret MacVicar Memorial AMITA Oral History Project

1989-2019

https://archivesspace.mit.edu/repositories/2/resources/854

The Margaret MacVicar Memorial AMITA (Association of MIT Alumnae) Oral History Project began in 1990 with the purpose of documenting life histories of women who graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The collection comprises interviews of women who graduated in 1922 and later. Interviews have been conducted by students working in MIT’s Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP).

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Wick, Emily L., 1921-2013

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Emily Wick (1921-2013) was a professor of food technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and was the first woman to earn tenure at the Institute. She received her BA (chemistry, 1943) and MA (organic chemistry, 1945) from Mount Holyoke College and her PhD in chemistry from MIT in 1951. She returned to MIT as a researcher in the Department of Food Technology in 1957, becoming an assistant professor in the same department soon after in 1959. During her time at MIT she develope...